Boxing: Danny Jacobs Shocks Peter Quillin With Stunning First-Round Stoppage

BROOKLYN -- They said he might not ever be able to walk again. They told him boxing is over. A five-inch scar runs down Danny Jacobs’ back from the six-hour surgery on May 18, 2011, to remove a cancerous tumor. He’s able to turn around and touch it. He played with the idea of getting a tattoo placed over it, but thought otherwise. It’s his battle scar. His badge for the world to see he never quit.

There were a few lonely nights when Jacobs laid in a hospital bed scared about his future, wondering if this cancer inside would break him. He wasn’t going to express that to anyone. It’s the little things he began remembering. It was the thought of getting back in the ring that inspired him.

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